15 March 2007

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.3:- graduated marker symbols are now supported- multi-part features are now supported- the feature name can now be explicitly defined- bunch of other bug fixes, minor tweaks and improvements

INSTALLATION:Refer to "Export_to_KML_Documention.pdf" for information on installingand uninstalling the extension.

NOTE:This is a free, open source product. While I'll continue to make improvements,if you need much more sophistication than this tool offers,check out the commercial software.

"Export to KML is an extension developed for ArcGIS 9.x by the City of Portland, Bureau of Planning. The extension allows ArcGIS users to export GIS data in “keyhole markup language” (KML) format for viewing in the free Google Earth data viewer. Any point, polyline, or polygon dataset, in any defined projection, can be exported. Features can be exported as either 2-dimensional features, or 3D features "extruded" upwards by an attribute or z-value.Some other features: ability to incorporate ArcMap layer symbology into the exported KML; labeling of point, line, and polygon features; "describe" individual features using the database attributes."

Please note: you will be making this data available to the whole world and make sure you own copyright to the data.Why all this effort?Make Kml available helps your potential users find you/your website/blog as google seem to be ranking geographical data higher than other web formats (plain old html, xml).Making your kml available online is also available through the google earth application and with 200 million downloads, it is going to help pull people towards your website.Remember content is King.